Detox Your Home in 6 Easy Steps

Is your home making you and your family sick?

Why should you detox your home and how do you know if your home is sick? Are you thinking, "I have never
heard of a sick house or a sick building"? Well there actually is
something called Sick Building Syndrome or SBS.
If you are suffering with mysterious illnesses, allergies, unwellness,
strange symptoms that can't be diagnosed, and change or go away when you
are away from your home, then you need to read this.

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids.

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In the bedroom there are a few things you need to be aware of. In case
you didn't know, dry cleaning uses some very toxic chemicals in its
process and they are released into your wardrobe, into your other
clothes, and into your bedroom.

* Most new
furniture, especially particleboard furniture and most new mattresses
give off chemical fumes. These fumes are called VOCs or Volatile Organic Compounds,
and they are given off by many household items. Usually you will only
be able to smell them and often just has a "new" smell, like when you
get into a new car it has "a new car smell". Yes that is actually a good
example!

* VOCs are found in chemical cleaning products, air fresheners and pesticide sprays, plastics, and many carpets and furnishings.

* Toxic building materials
including the new kitchen cupboards, carpets, vinyl floor coverings,
glues and paint. Always opt for a green, non-toxic version of everything
you bring into the home.

Toxins, VOC's, mold, bacteria and
gases can very quickly build up inside your home and you won't realize
it is happening. Did you know there is a cocktail of toxic chemicals in
soft furnishings, carpets, the paint on your walls and cleaning products
which can all have an effect on your health ranging from mild to
catastrophic?

These chemicals can trigger allergies
and the accumulative effect of inhaling them can be devastating.
Chances are you have this happening in your home especially if it is new
or newly renovated. What you need to do is detox your home!

Stop the pollutants in their tracks!

6 Easy Ways to Detox Your Home

1. Keep the Crap Out... If you live on a busy road, keep your windows closed until the traffic
dies down and try to place your bedrooms at the back of the house; and
invest in an air purifier.

2. Replace the Air...
Otherwise, open your windows daily to replace the air in your home. If
you have a new house or if it is newly painted, open your windows for as
long as possible every day until you can’t smell any of that paint
smell any more.

3. Cook and Eat Outside...
Of course, ideally you will have used a VOC free paint, but if you
haven't it will take some time to offgas. Perhaps you can eat outdoors
when you can, and cooking outdoors will reduce the odors and VOCs caused
by cooking; if you don't have one, you might want to arrange a nice
outdoor area to do this. Every day make sure you are spending time
outside - so many people don't think of going outside for fresh air. If
it is freezing, just step out for one minute and take 3 breaths of fresh
air; it will energize you.

5. Clean and Enliven Your Air... Invest in a beautiful fair trade salt crystal lamp for your home. With their gentle glow and organic shapes, Solay Crystal Salt Lamps
are simply beautiful, and beautifully simple. Each one-of-a-kind lamp
is hand-chiseled to preserve its primordial energy from a solid block of
crystal salt, hand-excavated from millions-year-old pristine sea beds
at the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, Polish Salt Caves and rare
Persian Salt Beds. These natural works of art work wonders for our
health and there is proven science behind this. The healthy ions created
by Crystal Salt Lamps help oxygenate and purify our air.

6. Grow Your Own Fresh Air...
Put some pot plants through your home. They are the healthiest air
purifiers on the planet! Trials carried out by NASA scientists
researching air quality improvements for astronauts show that various
common houseplants can effectively detox households by absorbing
poisonous vapors and releasing oxygen back into the air, which enhances
air quality. Here's the pick of the best house plants to improve the air quality in your home.

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.Anonymous